From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 17 16:33:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA01104 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 16:33:16 -0800 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA01098 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 16:33:15 -0800 Received: from hpautow.aus.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.14/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA008109185; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 16:33:05 -0800 Message-Id: <199501180033.AA008109185@hp.com> Received: by hpautow.aus.hp.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA01840; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 11:32:13 +1100 From: "M.C Wong" Subject: system crash To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 11:32:12 EDT X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14.c] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, This is probablt not relevant here but we just got a power failure and all the workstations and the server went down without a chance of sync'ing properly, something went wrong with the UPS on the server, anyway. Upon booting up today, all users using ksh hang and never got the shell prompt back. But if you set $HOME to something else, you can get ksh starting up properly. ie. I am using tcsh and I did : > setenv HOME /tmp; ksh it works ok!. Does anyone out there know well enough about ksh and similar problem to this ? Note that we got 2 big servers, server1, and server2, where all the users' home are on server1:/users/ and for some is a symb-link to server2:/users/, and the above ksh problem seems to affect users whose home is physically on servers:/users/. Is there a remedy without rebooting both servers (anyway they have been rebooted this morning) ? Thanks in advance. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 272 8058 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 898 9257 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://hpautow.aus.hp.com:9999/~mcw/mcw.html (or http://hpautorf/~mcw)